Hello, i’m trying draw a simple animation in Krita and when playing prewiew and image turns into a mess of fragments of other frames. I understand that the image is not cached, so there is not enough processor power to quickly draw everything. I also found animation caching options in the settings, …

Ok, I found solution there: [image] Screen goes black when I play animation General Questions Found a solution! Go to: Setings => Configure Krita => Display=> Canvas Acceleration And change Scaling Mode from Bilinear Filtering to High Quality Filtering or Trilinear Filte…

Hello and welcome to the forum :slight_smile: Which version of krita are you using? Which Mac model and operating system are you using? How much RAM do you have on your computer? The animation frames are cached and for a long animation then you’ll see a progress bar window that tells you that th…

Thanks. Krita version 5.1.1 Macbook pro 2015 13inch 8GB Ram MacOS Catalina 10.15.7 [image] AhabGreybeard: In the Settings → Configure Krita → Performance → Animation Cache tab, you can try setting the Cache Storage Backend to In-memory instead of On-disk. You must restart krita after doing…

It can be fiddly when graphics settings are a cause of problems so I’m glad that you’ve got it fixed now. You have Memory Limit set to 7GB maximum usage for krita. For small animations with not much RAM used for krita and the artwork storage, that should not be a problem. However, if you make lar…

[image] AhabGreybeard: However, if you make large/long animations that push krita’s usage up to 7GB, that will leave only 1GB for macOS to exist in and do its work in. That may cause OS system level swapping which can cause problems. Then perhaps it is worth using a disk for caching?

If you’re using a large amount of RAM then yes, using disk for caching is a good idea, to reduce RAM usage.

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Pegacy October 16, 2022, 11:40am 4

Ok, I found solution there:

Thanks.